Niños desaparecidos, robados, cautivos: historias buscadas y encrucijadas del origen en la literatura postdictatorial argentina

Abstract

The political narratives around the true identity of disappeared children imply a biological essentialization that presents them as a supplement to the generational gap of their disappeared parents, materializing a symbolic void left by forced disappearance. The reduction of the semantic polyvalence of these identities, however, obscures the actual vulnerability of these children, now adults, as political subjects. Post-dictatorship novels tend not to form counter-discourses to these overdetermined meanings, but to imitate the discursive power of Law and Biology in narrative evidentiation, inverting identity theft into tragic, but mostly successful anagnorisms.